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Our arrival in Chengdu, Claire's home city, was timed that it allowed us enough time to go out and explore the local area. Chengdu is a modern, large city that is the provincial capital of Sichuan province, the home of spicy cooking the most famous dish being Sichuanese Hotpot. This is a social dish eaten all over the place. It involves sitting at …

... top and then took the plunge and joined the queue. It took over 1 ¾ hours to get to the bottom but on the way down you did get some great side on views of the Buddha and also a view across the River onto Leshan. It really was huge, after getting a few pictures we had to rush off so that we could get the last bus back to Chengdu, after managing to flag down a cab and getting back to the bus station, we made it with minutes to spare. I slept for some of the Journey back and also chatted ...

... found out my horrible mistake. We weren't arriving at 5:30 PM...we were arriving at 5:30 AM! I had heard 5:30 when I bought the ticket and assumed it was PM since we left in the morning. It seems we had a "slow" train, which meant another twelve hours! Zach and I bought some instant noodles for dinner, watched the fifth Harry Potter movie (in Chinese), and then went to bed, ready for an early start. ...

... and relax. Tonight I am getting a massage. I am so sore - I found out how tense I am when I got my ears cleaned in front of the hostel by some dude. Happily, my ears weren't have bad. One guy took like 30 minutes with special potions - nasty. They very carefully stick thin implements into your ears and scoop out the wax. It gives me the heebie jeebies thinking about it but whatever - it's just one of those things different and fascinating about ...

... as they are most active. The chances of this were slim as the first bus was at 8.00 and take 45minutes to our knowledge.

We got up at 6.00 the earliest we have been up in 3 weeks to get the early bus, unfortunately we did not make it in time as there was a lot of traffic getting to the bus station, After sitting on bus 02 for 90 minutes, in more rush hour traffic, we arrived at the panda center, I was very excited. I have never seen a panda before, we ...